"overdrain" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: overdrain [canonical], overdrains [third-person, singular], overdrained [past], overdrained [past, participle], overdraining [present, participle]
Etymology: over- + drain Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|over|drain}} over- + drain Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you overdrain something, you drain it excessively.
    Sense id: simple-overdrain-en-verb-YjgtkOZy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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